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17 Hyper-V Gotchas

by Nicolas Blank 2 September 2011 Hyper-V

At the time of writing there are 17 reasonable well documented gotchas or things to avoid as best practice. You may be wondering what those are, how to find out, and why I know and you don’t…. All valid questions. I recently learned of the Hyper-V Gotchas Wiki, where folks like you or I – [...]

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Tagged as: HyperV

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Windows 8 adds native support for ISO and VHD Files

by Nicolas Blank 31 August 2011 News

The support for features in Windows 8 is becoming richer, adding features natively for which we currently need to bolt software onto Windows 7 in order to achieve the same functionality. Let’s look at an excerpt of the Windows 8 blog: As you see in the figure below, we have three ISO files in a [...]

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Tagged as: Windows 8

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Enable Windows Power Saving features while running HyperV on Windows 2008 R2

by Nicolas Blank 16 May 2011 Documentation

Running  HyperV on my laptop as my preferred hypervisor is enabled by using Server 2008 R2 as my laptops primary operating system, however, the caveat is that all power management features are automatically disabled. Hyper-V management services have a base dependency on a driver service known as HVBOOT. HVBOOT is a driver and as such [...]

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Tagged as: HyperV, Powersaving, PowerShell, Windows

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Exchange 2010 remote PowerShell breaks after add/remove/change of IP Address

by Nicolas Blank 5 April 2011 Exchange

Something that occurs in a lab situation quite frequently and less in real life is changing IP addresses on your Exchange server. Some of my lab servers frequently undergo a scenario change where I’ll add or remove them from specific Hyper-V networks or subnets.   Then one day everything broke. EMS reported : Connecting to [...]

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Tagged as: Exchange 2010, PowerShell, WinRM

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F5 Webcasts

by Nicolas Blank 31 March 2011 Exchange

Load Balancers can be rather complex, the guidance can be confusing, and how vendors interpret that guidance can be interesting. So image my joy when I discovered that F5 have a bunch of webcast based walkthroughs that make life easier for the average guy having to configure an F5 load balancer as part of implementing [...]

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Tagged as: Exchange 2010, F5, Load Balancer

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Restricting Hub Transport Server selection using SubmissionServerOverrideList

by Nicolas Blank 22 March 2011 Documentation

I had a great question today: I have three Hub Transport Servers,and one Mailbox Server, and I want   Hub Transport servers one and two used for load balanced mail delivery. Hub Transport Server three should never be used, except for mail relaying.   Obviously one of the design features of Exchange 2010 is the ability [...]

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Tagged as: Exchange 2010, Hub Transport, Message Routing

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Exchange 2010 – Anonymous Receive Connector for Multi-Function Devices and Internal Applications

by Nina Nortje 9 March 2011 Exchange

In transitioning a customer from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010, one of the issues that cropped up was configuring the multi-function printers to be able to send messages internally. Previously one just configured the relay list for the exchange server, and included the application server’s IP address or the multifunction printer/device’s IP address.   Exchange [...]

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Tagged as: Anonymous, Exchange 2010, Mail Relay, Recive Connector

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Going to Cloud Based Exchange and don’t know where to start? Want to Compare Gmail and Exchange online side by side?

by Nicolas Blank 1 February 2011 Anouncements

Very common for most orgs to not know where to start, or understand where the benefits are. This morning I was made aware of a free tool from Quest, called the Quest Migration Assessment Tool, or QMAT for short. It’s a  browser-based application that provides guidance for evaluating Microsoft Exchange Online (BPOS/Office365), Google Gmail, and [...]

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Tagged as: Exchange, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Free, Quest Software, Reporting

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PHP Manager for IIS 7

by Nicolas Blank 13 January 2011 IIS

No you didn’t read wrong, the title is correct – PHP manager will work with IIS 7 and 7.5 The official IIS site now features a very cool download allowing you to:   Register PHP with IIS; Validate and properly configure existing PHP installations; Run multiple PHP versions side by side on the same server [...]

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Tagged as: IIS, Interop, PHP

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CAS ARRAY Names, Certificates and Load balancers

by Nicolas Blank 1 November 2010 Exchange

CAS Array’s may be a bit confusing What are they What do you call them? Do CAS Array names need to be included in your certificate names What about load balancers   What are they? A CAS array is a logical Grouping of CAS servers within an AD site represented by a single DNS name, [...]

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Tagged as: Architechture, CAS, Exchange 2010, Guidance

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